Ten years before I saw the light of morning   A comradeship of heroes was laid   From every corner of the world came sailing   The Fifth International Brigade      They came to stand beside the Spanish people   To try and stem the rising fascist tide   Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy   Frank Ryan's men came from the other side      Even the olives were bleeding   As the battle for Madrid it thundered on   Truth and love against the force of evil   Brotherhood against the fascist clan      CHORUS      Viva la Quinta Brigada   "No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight   "Adelante" is the cry around the hillside   Let us all remember them tonight      Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor   Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came   From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother   Side by side they fought and died in Spain      Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba   With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun   From Dublin to the Villa del Rio   Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun      CHORUS      Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco   Joined Hitler and Mussolini too   Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers   Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew      The word came from Maynooth, "support the Nazis"   The men of cloth failed again   When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire   As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain      CHORUS      This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan   Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too   Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar   Though many died I can but name a few      Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly   Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls   Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy   Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill      CHORUS